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nimebe wrote:Tom - thank you for the additional guidance. It's encouraging to me to see the community have these discussions because this is the only way we'll find a solution that will work.

Several programs have been discussed on this forum, including one of Tom's, which store sensitive data on a locally run machine. Another is the Emergency Preparedness project. As far as I know these projects are still active.

This makes me think that a system that stored Home Teaching assignments locally and presented that information in a variety of ways would be fine. The only difference I see between me copy/pasting this information into an e-mail and clicking send and using a program to automate it is that the amount of time the task takes would be dramatically cut.

If the church decides that sending information exported from MLS is a security risk, they will ask us not to do so, we'll comply, and we'll look for another solution. I'm game.

nimebe: If you could think of a way to keep the e-mails in a standardized format, you could auto-process the returned e-mails. That might be a challenge, but you could probably notify the Presidency member when it encounters an e-mail that it doesn't know what to do with and allow them to manually handle it.

I'd love to help, but I'm now gunshy regarding investing any more of my time on any project that isn't 100% endorsed by the Church.

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I recently came across this command line email program, which looks helpful:

http://www.cleancode.org/projects/email
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I thought I would offer the perspective of a HP Group Leader familiar with Brado's HT/VT Reporting site. Our ward was fortunate to be able to use the site for several months prior to it being taken offline. Since August we have had to go back to the old ways of reporting and have tried to do as much as possible through emails. While emailing cuts down on some of the phone calls, it does not come anywhere near accomplishing what we were able to do with Brado's system. It now takes us 10 to 20 man hours a month to accomplish what only took minutes with Brado's system. I think we should be focusing on getting Brado's site approved, as anything less would be a big disappointment.

We felt Brado had developed an almost perfect HT/VT reporting system. We found it dramatically increased the efficiency and quality of our HT/VT reporting, allowing leadership to spend less time gathering HT/VT reports and focus more time on responding to the information gathered. Surprisingly, we also found it to be a motivating factor, as we witnessed significant increases in the numbers of families and individuals visited.

A question I keep hearing from many members and some of the Bishop's is "When are we going to get that great HT/VT reporting system back." Several of the Group, Quorum, and Relief Socety leaders in our stake have addressed letters to Joel Dehlin, CIO for the Church, requesting his helping in getting the system approved and implemented. We are hoping Church Leaders can approve moving the site to a Church server and then approve a pilot group to use the site while the Church monitors it and address any security and/or other concerns.

During a Tech Talk discussion held in SLC last January, Brother Dehlin presented a vision of what technology should do for the Church: "It should deliver high quality content to every corner of the earth, decrease administration and increase ministration, and bring souls to Christ. There is a great, untapped resource of people who are tech-savvy and could improve the technology of the Church. The time has come to utilize their knowledge."

We appreciate very much Tom's continued efforts to get Brado's HT/VT reporting site approved and implemented. We are trying to be patient, but feel frustrated by the loss of this extremely valuable tool.
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jerbarb wrote: A question I keep hearing from many members and some of the Bishop's is "When are we going to get that great HT/VT reporting system back." Several of the Group, Quorum, and Relief Socety leaders in our stake have addressed letters to Joel Dehlin, CIO for the Church, requesting his helping in getting the system approved and implemented. We are hoping Church Leaders can approve moving the site to a Church server and then approve a pilot group to use the site while the Church monitors it and address any security and/or other concerns.
Some movement is starting to happen on this project. Please have everyone who sent letters to Joel or who would send a letter send, send or forward them to me. You can send them via Email.

Joel is the Church's CIO but does not make the decisions as to what products we should produce. This application falls within the Priesthood department. I'd like to have a handful of well written letters with information about how much more efficient you were able to do your jobs when I meet with them next about this issue.

Tom
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tomw wrote:I'd like to have a handful of well written letters with information about how much more efficient you were able to do your jobs when I meet with them next about this issue.

Tom: Remember the letters that I posted here:

http://tech.lds.org/forum/showthread.php?t=502&page=24

They go on for 10 or so posts. If you need them in their original format, please let me know.

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tomw wrote:I'd like to have a handful of well written letters with information about how much more efficient you were able to do your jobs when I meet with them next about this issue.
I'd suggest that the letters be clear in distinguishing between an improvement in reported numbers and actual teaching improvements. Specific examples would be helpful. Indicate not that it helped, but how much it helped.
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brado426 wrote:Tom: Remember the letters that I posted here:

http://tech.lds.org/forum/showthread.php?t=502&page=24

They go on for 10 or so posts. If you need them in their original format, please let me know.

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I've grabbed the letters from this thread. Thanks!

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